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Mossback's Northwest: Songs for justice at the Canadian border
When the government took his passport, civil rights activist Paul Robeson sang for thousands atop a truck at Blaine's Peace Arch.
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Mossback's Northwest: Was Seattle too tough for Wyatt Earp?
The West's most famous lawman went from gunfighting in Tombstone, Arizona, to opening a gambling parlor in Seattle's Tenderloin neighborhood.
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Mossback's Northwest: A dead pig nearly started a war with Britain
Should the San Juan Islands be on the British or American side of the border? In 1859, the two countries nearly battled over it.
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Mossback's Northwest: Seattle's role in polar exploration
Norwegian Roald Amundsen was perhaps the greatest star of the so-called 'golden age' of Arctic expedition — and he used Seattle as a base camp.
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The disturbing Pelosi attack recalls Seattle’s Goldmark murders
State legislator John Goldmark became a political target of right-wing extremists in the 1960s. Two decades later, those accusations came to a violent head.